On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Mircea Carasel <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Douglas Hubler <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Mircea Carasel <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> I just noticed that sipx-freeswitch has XML-RPC support, and there is >>> already an interface created in sipXconfig, used >>> for conferences: >>> sipxecs/sipXconfig/neoconf/src/org/sipfoundry/sipxconfig/conference/FreeswitchApi.java >>> Probably the simplest thing to do would be to add a method that checks >>> G729 codec installation >>> >>> What do you think ? >> >> I'm afraid if we get too fancy, we'll get into situations where we >> cannot configure FS if it's currently down. Should it be down? >> probably not, but all we're trying to do is help the admin get the >> default list of codecs. >> >> Also, I think you missed my design. I was recommending we add the >> ability for sipXconfig to remotely execute commands by selecting from >> a pre-defined list of available commands installed by sipx-freeswitch >> project. sipXsupervisor will coordinate the transaction thru XMLRPC. >> >> I'm starting to have second thought about the design however because >> although this is secure because we're only selecting commands from a >> predetermined list and therefore cannot execute some arbitrary >> command, you'd have to watch each command argument as well. >> >> For example, here's a malicious attack >> command name = "testG729" >> arguments = [`dropdb SIPXCONFIG`] >> Industry standard configuration tools like cfengine, puppet, chef >> already solve this problem. >> >> So, instead, I would recommend we simply test for existence of local >> file, We can solve distributed setup once we have a more powerful >> configuration framework integrated. Folks with distributed setups can >> enable G729 codec manually IMHO. > I agree that this would be the nicest and simplest thing to do, but I > am worried about who is going to create that file and where. > > Is this fie going to be created on primary host (where sipXconfig is > installed) under a predefined path ? > If not, if this is about a file under a secondary host (where > freeswitch is installed) I believe we still need a remote call > (XML-RPC) from sipXconfig to get the information if the file exists or > not > > First, I was thinking that the file to check can be the G729 license > file, but then I realized that the license can expire, and we would > still need to run a command to verify if the license is expired.
Keep in mind we're coming up with the default codec list at the same moment the system admin is deciding they want to edit settings for freeswitch. Even if you found a perfect way to know that G729 codec is operational at any given moment it wouldn't make a difference unless the admin went to freeswitch configuration page and pressed apply settings. This does assume that FS doesn't blow up if G729 is setup as codec and G729 become unavailable for some reason. We need to test that case and ensure phones can still fallback on another codec. We also want to know what happens when licenses run out. The goal, in my mind is to solve the case where admins are setting up G729 codec for the first time and we want to save them one extra step. _______________________________________________ sipx-dev mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev/
